Five Misunderstandings Of Entrepreneurs

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The first misunderstanding: the entrepreneur is isolated.

Just like the metaphor of George Gilder, an American intellectual, these people think that many entrepreneurs are like Atlas (Atlases), who contends alone with the hostile world, studying the antisocial technology geek (Geek) that changes the world invention in the attic, and is isolated from society by George Gilder.

In fact, fighting alone is not the characteristic of starting a business.

Although entrepreneurship is just like other business activities, it is a social activity.

Entrepreneurs may be more independent than those who follow the rules, but they need help from business partners and social networks to help them succeed.

In the history of hi-tech startups, many great companies came from the cooperation of business partners: Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs) and Steve Woznia (Steve Wozniak) planted "apple" in the garage, Bill Gate (Bill Gates) and Paul Alan (Paul Allan) created "Microsoft", Sergei Brin (Sergey Brin) and Larry Paige (Larry Larry) together to create "X".

Entrepreneurial spirit also has agglomeration effect.

In December 2008, 3 weeks after the terrorist attack in Mumbai, 1700 passionate young India people gathered at a Bangalore hotel to attend a conference on entrepreneurship. Because the meeting was not so popular, the organizers had to put up huge tents to accommodate the redundant crowd.

Similarly, entrepreneurs with dreams can create an entrepreneurial atmosphere together, and in these strong entrepreneurial fields, entrepreneurship has become a part of life.

In the US, 1/3 of venture capital flows to two places: Silicon Valley and Boston.

The cafe in Silicon Valley is full of young people who talk loudly about their business plan.

These infrastructures are very good and can greatly reduce the cost of starting a new business.

The second misunderstanding is that most entrepreneurs are bums.

Today, some entrepreneurs have achieved success, but at the beginning of their business, they were really young: Gates, Jobs and DELL all started dropping out of college, and the founders of Google and Facebook started their own business in their student days.

Ben Casnocha (Ben Casnocha) set up her first company at the age of 12. When he was 17 years old, he was named entrepreneur of the year by Inc. magazine. At the age of 19, he published a book on entrepreneurial guidance.

But not all entrepreneurs are children.

Harland Sanders (Harland Sanders) was 65 when he opened his first Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Gary Burrell (Gary Burrell) is already 52 years old when she left Allied Signal to start Garmin company (GPS giant).

Herb Kelech (Herb Kelleher) only started Southwest Airlines when he was 40 years old, and this company pioneered the development of the US economic flight.

Kauffman Foundation (Kauffman Foundation) studied the average age of entrepreneurs born in the us from 39 to 2005.

And entrepreneurs over the age of 50 are two times the age of 25.

The third misunderstanding is that entrepreneurship relies mainly on venture capital.

It is undeniable that venture capital is really important for capital intensive industries such as high technology and biotechnology, and can effectively help new companies develop rapidly.

But the vast majority of venture capital enters only a few areas: computer hardware, software, semiconductor, communication technology and biotechnology.

Venture capitalists only subsidized a small number of start-up companies. In many industries, most of the capital of start-up companies is believed to come from personal loans and "3F": Friends (friends), fools (fools) and family members (families).

Google is often regarded as a typical example of successful venture capital investment, but brin and page didn't use any money to start the company. When Google was released, it borrowed only about $1 million from friends or customers.

In contrast, angel investors who can provide help at the initial stage of business are considered to be very important. As investors between venture capitalists and friends, they usually have some personal relationships with the enterprises they choose, and are more inclined to invest in these germinant enterprises than venture capitalists.

The fourth misunderstanding: if an entrepreneur wants to succeed, he must create products that change the world.

Many people think more about entrepreneurship based on "creation", and even think that entrepreneurship is just invention and patent. It seems that there is nothing new, so it is hard for entrepreneurs to live on their own.

Sir Ronald Cohen, the founder of Apax Partners, one of the most successful Venture Capital Firm in Europe, points out that some of the most successful entrepreneurs are focused on making methods rather than products. Ronald Cohen

Branson (Richard Branson) provides entertainment for its customers in order to make flight less boring.

By improving the quality of delivery packages, Fred Smith (Fred Smith) has established a company with assets of $one billion.

The best way to start a company to enter the market is to provide new products and new process skills. Doing the same thing and adding innovative factors will make you different.

The fifth misunderstanding is that entrepreneurship does not thrive in big companies.

Many people believe that start-ups may be more entrepreneurial than big companies that have already been established, because their incentives are more clear. They must cut into the market and regard themselves as the deadly enemies of big companies, while urging them to produce better innovation power.

But big companies are also starting businesses, trying to keep their employees innovative.

Johnson operates like a holding company, providing financial support and marketing skills for its in-house entrepreneurs; Jack Welch tries to pform Ge from a Goliath giant into a group of entrepreneurial David; Jorma (Ollila) pforms NOKIA, an old NOKIA company that produces rubber boots and cables, into a mobile phone giant, and his successor Ole Becca Campeche (Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo) is now considering changing NOKIA into a Internet Co.

These people are clearly qualified to enter the temple of entrepreneurs.

In many areas, especially in the pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries, outsourcing is usually done to some small companies.

Procter & Gamble has made efforts to make half of its inventions come from its own laboratories. Microsoft has been working closely with 750000 small companies worldwide. With the support of NOKIA, 3500 companies have grown up.

Many small start-ups are funded by big companies and other support. These big companies can also see hope in small companies.